Cribbage board



0 Q 0 0 0000 0000 000 0 0000 g E 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00%50 G m a-A0O=O O 0 0 0 O=O E=O FIG 3 Nov. 28, 1950 Patented Nov. 28, 1950 UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a cribbage board which by its peculiarstructure will indicate that a player has traversed one full round ofholes in the playing of the game of cribbage.

An object of the invention is to provide a cribbage board havingincorporated therein manually operated means for indicating that a roundof holes has been traversed in the playing of the game.

Another object of the invention is to provide a cribbage board thatincludes indicating means that is simple in operation, durable in useand for the purpose designed is inexpensive to manufacture.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists of thenovel details of construction, arrangement and combination of parts morefully hereinafter described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing in which:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a board embodying the invention;

Figure 2 is a side view thereof;

Figure 3 is an end view partly in section;

Figure 4 is a view of the opposite end and Figure 5 is a sectional viewon the line 5-5 of Figure 1.

Referring more in detail to the drawing, the referance numeraldesignates a cribbage board constructed in accordance with theinvention, which is of conventional shape and s ze and provided with theapertured playing surface 12.

One end of the board is provided with a cavity I! for retaining the pegstherein when the game is not being played, and the cavity is closed bythe cover pivotally mounted thereof by means of the screw I8.

Underlying the first five apertures in the inner rows on the playingsurface [2 is a cavity 20, and extending transversely of this cavity isa pin 22 which by means of depending apertured ears 24 formed thereonpivotally mounts the levers 26 in parallel spaced relation with eachother on the pin 22. Each of these levers is mounted off center, andresting on the short end 28 thereof is the eniarged head 30 of the pin32 vertically mounted in the bore 34 at the end of the inner rows in theplaying surface. The long end 36 underlies the first five apertures ofthe playing field, and when a tallying peg 38 is inserted in either ofthese apertures, the long end of the lever is depressed, and the shortend raised so that the pin 32 will rise above the playing surface. Thebore fits the pin loosely enough for movement therein, but tight enoughto retain the pin in raised position when moved upwardly by the lever.Applicants board [0 provides sixty playing holes for each player, andeach player makes a double round for one hundred and twenty holes for agame which is conventional for cribbage boards. Thus the last hole to beused by any one player is the last hole on the inside row of the pairsof holes used by the single player. Applicant underlies the last fiveholes of each row with the levers 26 so that when a player moves downthe inside row of holes on his first round, the five holes in this rowcan be used, should his count end in any one of the five holes, ratherthan just one hole. For example, if, in playing the game, the playershould land in hole 41, at the end of the hand, then when a crib ispicked up, it is found to contain a count of 10 or 12. This would landthe player at hole 51 or 59. Thus the lever would be actuated in eithercase. However, should the lever only underlie the end hole, the leverwould not be actuated. Then when a new hand is pegged, the first countusually being over one, the hole would be by-passed, and a leverunderlying only one hole would not be actuated. The five holes,therefore, give the player a good range and a good chance of landing ineither of the five holes during his first round. The board, therefore,is used to signify when the first round has been completed, and not whena game is won.

Thus a cribbage board has been provided which will indicate to theplayers when one round has been completed during the playing of thegame. Since both of the pins are below the playing surface when the gamestarts, and as the game progresses, the tallying pegs will raise thepins when the second row of apertures is used.

It is believed that the operation and construction of the invention willbe apparent to those skilled in the art, and it is to be understood thatchanges in the minor details of construction may be resorted to providedthey fall within the spirit of the invention and the scope of theappended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent is:

In a cribbage board, the combination which comprises an elongatedrectangular game board having spaced pairs of rows of tally pinreceiving openings positioned in sections of flve in each row in theupper surface and having an elongated centrally positioned openingextended inwardly from the starting end of the board, said elongatedopening extended under the openings of the inner rows of the endsection, said board also having a pair of round indicating pin openingsspaced from the last pin of the inner rows of the end section, roundindicating pins with heads on the inner ends frictionally mounted in thesaid round indicating pin openings, levers pivotally mounted in the saidelongated opening at points positioned between the said round indicatingpin openings and the last tally pin opening of each of th inner rows,said pivotal mountings spaced from one of the ends of the leversproviding long and short ends with the short end of each of said leversextended under the said round indicating pins and the long ends extendedunder the five tally pin openings in the end section of the boardwhereby a, tally pin ex- 4 tended through one of said five openingstherefor actuates the lever on that side of the board to elevate theround indicating pin positioned above the short end thereof.

WILLIAM F. SWIFT.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,009,383 Coughlin Nov. 21, 19111,717,037 Kallio June 11, 1929 1,843,457 Morse Feb. 2, 1932 2,323,371Brown July 6, 1943

